Guido Arnold
#Question to #Diaspora:

What's the best way to link to another posting?



The URL of my last posting that's shown to me is: * https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/6264651 while from a different pod (e.g. cryptospra) it looks * https://cryptospora.net/posts/1723761

I recently learned that each post or comment gets a "guid" which can be obtained by adding ".json" at the end of the URL. The different numbers at the end of the links above can be replaced by it and will still work: * https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/3dd36cd01209013582064860008dbc6c * https://cryptospora.net/posts/3dd36cd01209013582064860008dbc6c

Though, I guess this will not work on pods that haven't received this posting yet, will it?

In that mentioned post, I tried referring to another posting with:
[public records system](./posts/42e20870e4b90134d8e90242ac110007)
which works for me but not on another pod (there will be another "posts/" added) and this will also not translate to a link in the wordpress plug-in as the "http" is missing.

I could just use the full URL of the pod I'm on but this would not allow readers from other pods to act (like, reshare, comment) on the post I am referring to.

Is there a perfect way to do it?


The news that #Greenland's public records system (./posts/42e20870e...

The news that #Greenland's public records system (./posts/42e20870e4b90134d8e90242ac110007) will be Free Software is already tow months old, but I haven't had the chance to congratulate #FSFE Fellow @Carsten Agger and his company for getting the contract (http://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2017/03/14/building-greenlands-data-infrastructure-as-free-software/)!
#greenland' #question #diaspora #greenland's #fsfe
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mezzodrinker
@Guido Arnold I can imagine the dot in the front being an issue when viewing the post details instead of the stream, seeing that the request URL for posts is /posts/123456 while stream's URL is /stream. If the dot wasn't removed, the current directory (usually represented as .) would be /posts and /, resulting in /posts/posts/<id> in the post details.

However, I don't know the inner workings of diaspora* and Ruby on Rails, so it could be I am mistaken.
Paweł Szymon Kosiński
Sadly that problem exists in all federated social networks I know, except Hubzilla: there you can login on any pod.